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MIME Types for Use with the ISO ILL Protocol

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RFC 2503              ISO ILL Protocol MIME Types          February 1999


   Required Parameter:  transfer-encoding

   For BER-encoded PDU's or DDI's, the only current legal value of this
   parameter is:

    iso-8825-ber

   The transfer-encoding parameter describes the way the PDU has been
   encoded before being submitted to the transport service (in this case
   MIME/RFC 822).  The two protocols described in this RFC specify their
   APDU's using ASN.1 (ISO 8824:1990) and the most common way of
   encoding ASN.1 packets is to use the Basic Encoding Rules (BER ISO
   8825)

   The parameter is included to allow future use of these MIME types
   with other encoding schemes. As an example, the ISO 10161 standard
   also describes an encoding method using EDIFACT. In the future, other
   schemes might also be employed. (Since the EDIFACT encoding is not
   currently in use amongst the ISO 10161 and DDI communities, a value
   for the transfer-encoding parameter to describe it is not being
   registered in this RFC.)

   Optional  parameter: iso-10161-apdu-type

   Valid values are:

   ILL-Request
   Forward-Notification
   Shipped
   ILL-Answer
   Conditional-Reply
   Cancel
   Cancel-Reply
   Received
   Recall
   Returned
   Checked-In
   Overdue
   Renew
   Renew-Answer
   Lost
   Damaged
   Message
   Status-Query
   Status-Or-Error-Report
   Expired





Moulton & Needleman          Informational
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